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Insights<p>Here is the answer to the question Part III ended on, and it is worth stating plainly because most readers, including many who work in Af...
Kayongo Johnson brianSeptember 11, 2026What we are building
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Before there was mobile money there was the bus. A man working construction in Nairobi with a family in Kisii had a small number of options for getting…
Kayongo Johnson brianSeptember 13, 2026
Railsekashrwanda
I want to start with a receipt, because in payments the receipt is the argument. Last month I needed RWF 14,000,000 in my bank account, and then in my…
Adrian MukemboSeptember 12, 2026Insights
<p>Here is the answer to the question Part III ended on, and it is worth stating plainly because most readers, including many who work in Af...
Kayongo Johnson brianSeptember 11, 2026
money
<p>On 19 July 1965, Ghana left the sterling area. Kwame Nkrumah had been independent for eight years, and for those eight years his country ...
Support InversepaySeptember 9, 2026
cowrie
For centuries the cowries circulating in West Africa had been Monetaria moneta, the small money cowrie of the Maldives, shipped in modest quantities because the voyage was long and the shells were not free. Then in the 1840s European traders noticed a second species. Monetaria annulus, the ring cowrie, grew abundantly on the East African coast; it was larger and coarser than the Maldivian shell, and it could be bought at Zanzibar for almost nothing and carried around the Cape as ballast.
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Gold
The summer the price of gold collapsed. At the centre was Musa I, ruler of Mali, on pilgrimage to Mecca.
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